Questions tagged [riddle]
This is NOT a general tag for all puzzles that are somehow indirect. A riddle gives indirect clues about an unnamed object or concept to be identified, often in a poem format.
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Not about the turtles, what makes their name?
Tied on water
Bonded by water
Dipping, not for tripping
Faximilating static
With a stroke that's dynamic
A brush with life
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I Rhyme with Rhyme
I can rhyme with rhyme
Let you know a specific time
In a Music Hall
You will find me there
Part of a tree
And ready to share
Who am I?
This is my own riddle
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The Reverend's Riddle: "A skinny man atop a steed..."
Last night I found the Reverend lying back on a picnic blanket. When I asked him what he was looking at, he said:
A skinny man atop a steed,
Or wading birdie's run at speed,
Or saxophonist (far from ...
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Who is the Pro?
I give you
Prison
Then tell me who is the Pro?
Martha Stewart or OJ Simpson or Yoko Ono or Mark Wahlberg or Jimmy Connors?
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Talk to the riddle to find what I have in mind
Like a sigil
That's been caught
And so we'll stop
What I spy, instruction and answer?
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You all know me as __
A strong element
An animal at the start
An animal at the end
And a gas in the middle
Can you solve this riddle?
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A round of a pause
Though trapped in amber,
Not a bug,
It lights up all the same
What is this? Not a game
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A lot of different folks in this country
A Country
Take a letter out and you have a group of people
Take 2 letters out and you have a person
Take 3 letters out and you have a person
Take 4 letters out and you have a person
Take 5 letters out ...
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Can you determine what animal I am?
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What Mathematical object am I?
My prefix means they usually don’t meet.
My infix is a type of table.
My suffix is a unit of measurement.
The suffix of my suffix is an animal.
My whole is a Mathematical object.
What am I?
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A special garden riddle
My prefix is the prefix of my infix.
My infix is a type of cube face.
My suffix is you and me.
My whole has an extremely well-watered garden.
What am I?
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Where for April is this place?
Where is the
Quodlibetarian place,
Where ideas chase,
Inner rhetorician reigns,
Umbrellaless it drains?
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"Complementary Letters"
The answer is a single word.
Part of me (5) is related to O
Part of me (7) is related to C
Part of me (5) is related to U
Part of me (5) is related to J
Part of me (5) is related to X
What Am I?
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Sweet yet private
I am delicious, but can be also private.
People often ask for me because I am delicious and often used as topping, but also sometimes to allow me.
I am a food, sometimes snack or dessert, but also can ...
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